Social & Political Philosophy

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, inclu...

An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence. Where does self-confidence come from? H...

The fundamental issues that structure social and political philosophy revolve around the tensions between cooperative (ethical) values and competit...

Liam Shields systematically clarifies and defends the political philosophy of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things...

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of ...

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

This book demonstrates that philosophy matters to everyday living and that people who ignore the enduring, fundamental questions of life thereby un...

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is ...

From his geometrical method to his geometrical examples; from his doctrine of reason to his explanation of bodies in motion; and from his account o...

A new approach to culture and cultural patterns is elucidated through relating a theory of personality and social characters to the genesis of myth...

An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, r...

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of ...

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the Red Years at the end of the Sixties ...

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the ...

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the ...

This book is an inquiry into the concept of legitimacy. In stable democratic states, such as the Nordic societies, legitimacy is often taken for gr...

Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at th...

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A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment and religion takes us straight to some of contemporary cultures most notorious issues: suicide bo...